Free Comic Book Day has been moved back to its traditional first day in May! With COVID restrictions dropped across the county and city, we are returning to our traditional offerings!
Come on in starting at 11 AM and take your pick from our tables! We’ll have them arranged by all-ages, teen and up, and mature readers, and we’ll have selections not just from this year but from previous years! We expect everyone to be able to get a few extra comics this year, but as always, the best selection will be early on, and we can’t guarantee any particular books as the day wears on!
Costumes are welcome and encouraged, bring your friends and comic book newbies, and help us celebrate the true return of Free Comic Book Day!
Thank you for helping us make Free Comic Book Day fun and safe for everyone this year! If you have questions, comments, or suggestions on how to do this better this year, we welcome them at roguesgallerytx@gmail.com!
Annual Inventory Sale! 75% Or More Off!
We have started the final month of our annual inventory clearance sale, with a selection of boardgames and role-playing games available now, and graphic novels to be added in the coming weeks! The remaining graphic novels are $5 each, and the remaining games are somewhere between $10-15!
Magic the Gathering Streets of New Capenna Prerelease
Streets of New Capenna will be set in a new plane, the sprawling metropolis of New Capenna. Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks about this city full of grit, glamour, and intrigue.
We will have an after-hours prerelease on Friday, April 22nd from 7 PM-11 PM. We will have room for up to 25 players to come in, build a prerelease deck, and play a three round tournament for prizes including Streets of New Capenna boosters! This is also the first time in a while that the set will premiere in person, not going up on Magic Arena until the next week!
We ask that folks pre-register at the store by coming in, calling, or emailing! On the day, we ask that players start showing up around 6:30 to get everyone set up so that we can start as close to 7 as possible, and if you have the Magic Companion app, that will be very helpful in getting everything sorted.
The entry fee is $30, which will get you a prerelease kit and a chance at various prizes, including limited cards and booster packs! There will be access to a land station for the event (however, we encourage you to bring your own land if you have it, just to make sure there’s enough to go around.)
This is a lock-in event, so only those playing in the tournament will be allowed in the store while it is going on, with breaks between rounds for food or drink.
As always for prerelease weekends, we will also have full boxes of boosters (with buy a box cards) available for sale, although those cannot be used during the prerelease.
Make sure and sign up in-store!
Magic the Gathering Kamigawa Neon Dynasty Prerelease
Celebrate the return to Kamigawa and the first science-fiction Magic set with Kamigawa Neon Dynasty, a cyberpunk revamp of the popular setting, last seen in 2005!
We will have an after-hours prerelease on Friday, February 11th from 7 PM-11 PM. We will have room for up to 25 players to come in, build a prerelease deck, and play a three round tournament for prizes including Kamigawa Neon Dynasty Boosters!
We ask that folks pre-register at the store by coming in, calling, or emailing! On the day, we ask that players start showing up around 6:30 to get everyone set up so that we can start as close to 7 as possible, and if you have the Magic Companion app, that will be very helpful in getting everything sorted.
The entry fee is $30, which will get you a prerelease kit and a chance at various prizes, including limited cards and booster packs! There will be access to a land station for the event (however, we encourage you to bring your own land if you have it, just to make sure there’s enough to go around.)
This is a lock-in event, so only those playing in the tournament will be allowed in the store while it is going on, with breaks between rounds for food or drink.
As always for prerelease weekends, we will also have full boxes of boosters (with buy a box cards) available for sale, although those cannot be used during the prerelease.
Make sure and sign up in-store!
Black Friday Sale Returns!
It’s back! Last year the pandemic had us skipping our traditional Black Friday sale, but this year it’s back! Our 12th annual Black Friday sale is coming on Friday, November 26th. Come kick off your holiday shopping and earn bonus gift certificates!
From the time we open (11 AM) until the time we close (7 PM) on Friday, November 26th, any purchase you make (excepting gift certificates) will also earn you bonus holiday gift certificates. For every $25 you spend, you’ll get $5 on a gift certificate, and you can break those up into individual $5 gift certificates, one big gift certificate with the whole amount or any other combination you choose. So for example, if you spend $100, you’ll get $20 in our special holiday gift certificates.
So come on in and get a little extra bang for your holiday-shopping buck. Or pick up something for yourself and get some bonus money to give away as gifts. But make sure and stop in for this one-day event!
Boring Rules Stuff:
Just like our regular gift certificates, these have no expiration date, and can be used for anything in the store. We’ll be using these throughout the holiday season. They cannot be used on the day of purchase, but can be used as early as Saturday, November 27h.
The amount used to calculate bonus gift certificates is the pre-tax value of merchandise (within reason – a $24.99 or $24.95 item will get you the $5 gift certificate). $5 is given for each full $25, not a fraction thereof.
We will be closed on Thursday, November 25th for Thanksgiving.
Magic the Gathering Crimson Vow Prerelease
Return to the dark horror realm of Innistrad this winter with not one but two sets! The second one, vampire themed, is called Crimson Vow, and will release in September! And we will be doing an after-hours prerelease for the set!
The after-hours prerelease will be on Friday, November 12th from 7 PM-11 PM. We will have room for up to 25 players to come in, build a prerelease deck, and play a three round tournament for prizes including Innistrad Crimson Vow Boosters! We ask that folks pre-register at the store by coming in, calling, or emailing! On the day, we ask that players start showing up around 6:30 to get everyone set up so that we can start as close to 7 as possible, and if you have the Magic Companion app, that will be very helpful in getting everything sorted.
All of our staff is fully vaccinated, and we would appreciate if participants would be willing to share their vaccination status as well. Because we cannot guarantee that everyone participating will be vaccinated, we will recommend everyone wear masks if you are not vaccinated.
The entry fee is $30, which will get you a prerelease kit and a chance at various prizes, including limited cards and booster packs! There will be access to a land station for the event (however, we encourage you to bring your own land if you have it, just to make sure there’s enough to go around.)
This is a lock-in event, so only those playing in the tournament will be allowed in the store while it is going on, with breaks between rounds for food or drink.
As always for prerelease weekends, we will also have full boxes of set boosters (with buy a box cards) available for sale, although those cannot be used during the prerelease.
Make sure and sign up in-store!
Magic the Gathering Innistrad Midnight Hunt After-Hours Prerelease!
Return to the dark horror realm of Innistrad this winter with not one but two sets! The first one, werewolf themed, is called Midnight Hunt, and will release in September! And we will be doing an after-hours prerelease for the set!
The after-hours prerelease will be on Friday, September 17th from 7 PM-11 PM. We will have room for up to 40 players to come in, build a prerelease deck, and play a three round tournament for prizes including Innistrad Midnight Hunt Boosters! We ask that folks pre-register at the store by coming in, calling, or emailing! On the day, we ask that players start showing up around 6:30 to get everyone set up so that we can start as close to 7 as possible, and if you have the Magic Companion app, that will be very helpful in getting everything sorted.
All of our staff is fully vaccinated, and we would appreciate if participants would be willing to share their vaccination status as well. Because we cannot guarantee that everyone participating will be vaccinated, we will recommend everyone wear masks if you are not vaccinated.
The entry fee is $30, which will get you a prerelease kit and a chance at various prizes, including limited cards and booster packs! There will be access to a land station for the event (however, we encourage you to bring your own land if you have it, just to make sure there’s enough to go around.)
This is a lock-in event, so only those playing in the tournament will be allowed in the store while it is going on, with breaks between rounds for food or drink.
As always for prerelease weekends, we will also have full boxes of set boosters (with buy a box cards) available for sale, although those cannot be used during the prerelease.
Make sure and sign up in-store!
Magic the Gathering Mystery Booster Draft – Canceled
PLEASE NOTE: Due to a limited number of preregistrations and stage 5 COVID, we have decided to cancel this event! We will have Mystery Boosters for sale on Friday.
The popular Mystery Boosters are returning in August in a new limited Convention Edition! Each Mystery Booster Convention Edition contains 14 cards from over 1600 cards from decades of Magic history, plus one extra-special “R&D” card.
We will have some for sale, but we will be holding two boxes to do a special Magic the Gathering Mystery Booster Draft to restart our Friday Night Magic events on Friday, August 20th!
Players will each buy 3 Mystery Boosters and run a 3-round draft! The first three place winners will each win a bonus Mystery Booster, and everyone who plays will get a prize pack from Ravnica, Kaldheim, Strixhaven, or another set.
The event will begin at 7 PM, though we encourage players to show up around 6:30 so that they can do their buy-in, get any sleeves, log their information into the Magic companion app, etc. We will run three rounds, which should end somewhere around 10:30 PM. For now, our Magic events are lock-in events, we will be closed to regular traffic. We will have enough boosters for 24 players, so if you would like to pre-register to make sure you get a spot, just ask in store!
We will have final pricing and other information available soon!
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, August 14th, 2021
PLEASE NOTE: Due to COVID changes, we are REQUIRING masks on Free Comic Book Day. See below for all the changes in this year’s offerings.
Free Comic Book Day has been moved from its traditional first Saturday in May to the last Saturday of summer, August 14th, for 2021. We will be having a limited in-store event… details below!
In order to have the safest Free Comic Book Day possible, we are changing a few things about how we’re doing the event this year. Because FCBD is a kid-friendly event and most kids cannot be vaccinated yet, and because of the increase in COVID cases, we are requiring masks of everyone in store on Free Comic Book Day.
We’ll be giving out comics in packs of 5 with a general guideline (G, PG, R, and Marvel/DC only (which is PG to PG-13)) from our second door. If there’s a specific comic or two that you are looking for, we will do our best to accommodate, but since the comics are set into packs, it may be difficult or impossible. We’re sorry to cut down on the choice, but we are doing our best to make it safe.
Then you are welcome to come in and shop (as long you’ve got masks, and as long as the store isn’t too packed) but we’re doing our best to make sure that we don’t have giant crowds during these COVID times.
Thank you for helping us make Free Comic Book Day fun and safe for everyone this year! If you have questions, comments, or suggestions on how to do this better this year, we welcome them at roguesgallerytx@gmail.com!
Rogues Gallery COVID-19 June 2021 Update (Masks Still Required!)
For the time being, despite the CDC’s announcement that vaccinated people are safe unmasked, we are still requiring masks to enter the store. We want to be considerate of those who cannot get vaccinated, which includes immunocompromised folks and most children. If you don’t or can’t wear masks, we are happy to provide curbside service. We will revisit these guidelines in July.
We are open from 11 AM – 7 PM each day, and we offer curbside service and in-store browsing!
CURBSIDE SERVICE:
1. Give us a call (512-279-8888) and let us know what you’d like, and we’ll ring it up for you over the phone.
2. Come to the store and give us a call and we’ll bring it right out to you! We usually go to the drivers or passenger side window, but if you’d like to pop the trunk or unlock the back door for us instead, please let us know!
IN-STORE SHOPPING:
To browse the store, we ask you to observe two simple rules:
1. Wear a Mask. If you have very small children who just cannot wear masks, that is understandable but please understand that children are not immune to carrying COVID, and anyone in the store without a mask is a potential threat to other children and unvaccinated people.
2. Social Distancing. Remain six feet away from employees and other customers as much as possible.
IN-STORE GAMING:
We have had a fair amount of questions about in-store gaming. We have found that the decreased hours and increased display space has worked well for us, and we expect to continue with that as we move toward a more full re-opening. We are currently planning for an after-hours Magic prerelease in July, and potentially starting Friday Night Magic (with extended hours) in June, but that is tentative. We do not currently have plans to reopen for casual boardgaming, D&D, or Heroclix. We will be re-examining that at the end of the summer.
Thank you to everyone for helping us to survive in these difficult times, we greatly appreciate all of you.
